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Article: Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War. (Book Reviews).
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- June 22, 2002
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Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War. By Charles B. Dew. A Nation Divided: New Studies in Civil War History series. Ed. James I. Robertson. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2001. 124 pages. $22.95. Reviewed by Dr. J. Boone Bartholomees, Jr., Professor of Military History, US Army War College.
In this volume, Charles Dew, a history professor at Williams College whose previous Civil War work includes a biography of Joseph R. Anderson of the Tredegar Iron Works, decided to wade into the still lively debate about the causes of the Civil War. He examines the question from the Southern point of view during ...